September 2012
Management through literature
and movies
Presentation
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Aims of the course
• The course will try to define and improve skills and
attitudes other than those usual in the domain of
academic studies and offer students new
perspectives for the development of their ideas.
• Group-work, lectures and workshops will be centred
on movies and literary works to trigger critical
thinking and promote personal growth.
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Course structure
• Three sessions workshop: “the power of words”
(prof. Puglisi)
• Class discussions about some movies
• Small groups preparing analysis and comments
about movies and/or novels connected to
organisational and managerial topics
• Class presentations by small groups of students
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International students
(English language sessions)
• 6 sessions (3 ECTS)
• Presentations of groups (max. 3 people) concerning an issue/
topic explained using movies or novels
• Marks follow presentations
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Lesson Timetable
Sept. 18, Tuesday:
11.00 - 12.00
Presentation. How Novels & Movies can play a role in
management theory and practice.
Oct. 2, Tuesday:
9.00 - 12.00
"The Power of Words. A Complex
Approach to Contemporary Issues in Management".
Oct. 16, Tuesday:
9.00 - 12.00
"The Power of Words. A Complex
Approach to Contemporary Issues in Management"
Oct. 23, Tuesday:
9.00 - 12.00
"The Power of Words. A Complex
Approach to Contemporary Issues in Management"
Oct. 30, Tuesday:
9.00 - 12.00
Analysing management issues through movies.
Guidelines for student’s works
Nov. 20, Tuesday:
9.00 - 12.00
Analysing organizational culture across the world
Dec. 10, Monday:
9.00 – 11.00
2.00 - 5.00 p.m.
Presentations of student’s works
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Italian students
(English language+ Italian language sessions)
• 13 sessions (6 ECTS): 6 English + 7 Italian
• (Tuesday 9.00-12.00)
• Presentation (in Italian language) of group work
(max. 3 people) concerning:
– An issue/topic explained using movies
– An issue/topic explained using novels
• Marks follow presentations
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Orario delle lezioni aggiuntive in italiano / Timetable
Martedì : 9 - 12
Sept. 25:
9.00 - 12.00
Oct. 9:
9.00 - 12.00
Nov. 6
9.00 – 12.00
Nov. 13:
Management e cinema: indicazioni metodologiche.
Esercitazione
Applicazioni: gestione di crisi aziendali
Applicazioni: il potere in azienda e la gestione del
personale
Applicazioni: leadership
9.00 - 12.00
Nov. 27 :
Presentazioni degli studenti
9.00 - 12.00
Dec. 4 :
Presentazioni degli studenti
9.00 - 12.00
Dec 11:
Presentazioni degli studenti
9.00 - 12.00
Dec 18:
Presentazioni degli studenti
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Themes, arguments
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Change
Power
Training
Leadership
Responsibility
Problem-solving and
Decision-making
• Crises and Emergencies
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• Humour, Irony and
Management
• The Limits of Organizations
• Quality
• Negotiations
• Motivation
• Diversity Management
• Gender Issues
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Narratives and organization studies
• Narratives enable us to study organizational politics,
culture and change in uniquely illuminating ways,
revealing how wider organizational issues are
viewed, commented upon and worked upon by their
members
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Why Management through literature and movies?
• Reading novels and watching movies is not only
relevant to one's personal education, it can also play
a role in management theory and practice.
• In fiction, managers will find helpful hints,
suggestions and even answers to basic questions
that scientific management may find hard to cope
with.
• Whenever traditional economic theories lack the
time and patience to focus on what is actually
happening in the world, novels and movies may help
us develop new ideas and increase our awareness.
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A narrative approach
How contributes to understand management
organizations, work life?
• Knowledge mode suitable for present time, source of
languages useful to understand complex phenomena
• Conflict that produces change
• Learning process following thoughts and emotions
• Opportunity for identification
• Developing personal features and resources
• Storing redundancy, useful stuff to manage uncertainty
• Facing to ambiguity of relations and situations
• Opening access to unknown worlds
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